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The psittacosaurid fossil — with a tail clad in spines reminiscent of the quills of a porcupine, never before seen on such specimens — is now at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt, acknowledged palaeontologist Fritz Steininger. The specimen was purchased this summer from a German dealer, Ulrich Leonhardt, for around US$200,000, which is being paid in instalments, said Steininger.
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Dalton, R. Wandering Chinese fossil turns up at museum. Nature 414, 571 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/414571a
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